Rationale

A finely assembled employee resource can provide a unique contribution to a firmís competitive advantage. Whilst respecting legislative obligations, this will only be achieved if, from the outset, appropriate pools of candidates are attracted to work for the firm and from which the firm selects employees best suited to meeting the objectives of the business. After shaping its employee resource, the firm needs to retain and motivate its unique assembly of employees by welcoming them and rewarding them appropriately.

Synopsis

One of the key challenges facing modern-day organisations is to ensure that the organisation is staffed with competent, committed and appropriately talented people. In order to achieve this, appropriate staffing, remuneration and reward strategies and practices are essential. These are key areas of human resource management and numerous HRM professionals specialise in this field. This course examines how the work done in organisations needs to rest upon forming proper work requirements, matching people to jobs, managing job information, assessing the value of jobs and remunerating employees for their work. This course covers relevant theory and practice about the fit between organisational strategy, staffing, remuneration and reward.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

understand the relationship between organisational strategy, human resource management, staffing and remuneration in an organisation

understand and apply principles, processes and practices related to the staffing of organisations with appropriately qualified employees

understand and apply principles, processes and practices related to the remuneration and reward of employees

demonstrate academic and professional literacy skills by understanding and applying relevant principles, concepts and theory

demonstrate ethical research and enquiry skills and intermediate level written communication skills by preparing and submitting a written assignment that adheres to norms of academic integrity.

Topics

Description

Weighting(%)

1.

A strategic approach to staffing the firm

10.00

2.

Tools for the staffing strategy

10.00

3.

Enacting the staffing strategy: recruiting

10.00

4.

Enacting the staffing strategy: short-listing

10.00

5.

Enacting the staffing strategy: selecting, appointing and inducting

10.00

6.

Setting the stage for strategic compensation

10.00

7.

Determining base pay

10.00

8.

Incentive pay

10.00

9.

Benefits

10.00

10.

International pay

10.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from USQ's Online Bookshop (unless otherwise stated). (https://bookshop.usq.edu.au/bookweb/subject.cgi?year=2013&sem=01&subject1=MGT2000)

Student workload requirements

Assessment details

Description

Marks out of

Wtg (%)

Due Date

Notes

CMA TEST

10

5

20 Mar 2013

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT

100

45

29 Apr 2013

EXAMINATION PART A

20

20

End S1

(see note 1)

EXAMINATION PART B

30

30

End S1

NOTES

The examination is scheduled to be held in the end-of-semester examination period. Students will be advised of the official examination date for Examination (Parts A and B) after the timetable has been finalised. The total working time for Examination (Parts A and B) is 2 hours.

Important assessment information

Attendance requirements:
It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities (such as lectures, tutorials, laboratories and practical work) scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.

Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks. (Depending upon the requirements in Statement 4 below, students may not have to satisfactorily complete each assessment item to receive a passing grade in this course.)

Penalties for late submission of required work:
If students submit assignments after the due date without prior approval of the examiner, then a penalty of 5% of the total marks gained by the student for the assignment may apply for each working day late up to ten working days at which time a mark of zero may be recorded.

Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.

Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative assessment items in the course.

Examination information:
This is a restricted examination. Candidates are allowed access to specific materials during the examination. The only materials that candidates may use in the restricted examination for this course are: writing materials (non-electronic and free from material which could give the student an unfair advantage in the examination); English translation dictionaries (but not technical dictionaries). Students are not permitted to take mobile telephones, pagers or other electronic means of communication into the examination room.

Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
Any Deferred or Supplementary examinations for this course will be held during the next examination period.

University Student Policies:
Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene University policies and practices. These policies can be found at http://policy.usq.edu.au.

Assessment notes

(i) The due date for an assignment is the date by which a student must submit the assignment to the USQ. (ii) Students must retain a copy of each item submitted for assessment. This must be produced within 24 hours if required by the examiner. (iii) In accordance with university policy, the examiner may grant an extension of the due date of an assignment in extenuating circumstances.

Referencing in assignments: Harvard (AGPS) is the referencing system required in this course. Students should use Harvard (AGPS) style in their assignments to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The Harvard (AGPS) style to be used is defined by the USQ Library's referencing guide at http://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing.

Course weightings of topics should not be interpreted as applying to the number of marks allocated to questions testing those topics in an examination paper. The examination may test material already tested in assignments.

Students may be required to provide an electronic copy of assignments submitted for assessment purposes. Such copies should be dispatched to the USQ within 24 hours of receipt of a request to do so.